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The Westchester Board of Legislators has approved a $124.7 million budget for the community college for the 2014-15 year, up about 1.8 percent from this year. Of that $29.3 million will come from county taxpayers, about $33.6 million from the state and $55 million from tuition. The county is the… ?
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Several months after it was first proposed by County Executive Rob Astorino, the Westchester Board of Legislators has passed a $5 million bond act to repair a list of roads around the county. Astorino had initially proposed the bonding as an emergency fund to fix roads damaged by the harsh… ?
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Westchester County has sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency asking for approval of its plan to bring Water District 1 into compliance with ultraviolet treatment requirements for drinking water. The county missed a 2012 deadline to bring White Plains and Scarsdale, two of the four towns in the… ?
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Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate for governor, will be deposed under oath by the court monitor overseeing the county’s 2009 fair housing settlement with the federal government. Judge Denise Cote granted the monitor’s request for the deposition over objections by the county and said the deposition can… ?
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The North Castle Town Board is calling on Westchester County to immediately repair the Miller House in North White Plains, which was one of Gen. George Washington’s headquarters during the battle of White Plains in the Revolutionary War. The Town Board also said in a resolution passed Wednesday that it… ?
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The media buying company Buying Time was the most prominently featured campaign-related company in the New York Times story this week detailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s apparent meddling with the Moreland Commission. The Times said Cuomo administration officials ordered the commission to withdraw a subpoena it had issued to the company,… ?
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Three Democratic members of the Westchester Board of Legislators have asked state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to audit the county Ethics Board after criticism of the county executive’s outside job led to questions about the effectiveness of the volunteer board set up to be the county’s ethics watchdog. County Executive Rob… ?
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development has notified Westchester County that it will not be getting more than $5 million in community development grants for 2014. The loss of the grants was not unexpected. The county has been in a protracted fight with HUD over the implementation of a… ?
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Westchester Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz has written a mid-term report on the progress the board has made in the first six months of his tenure as chairman. He touches on topics from charter reform to the fair housing settlement. The report is below. Kaplowitz also appeared on the… ?
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Westchester County executive Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate for governor, has been busy. In addition to running the county and running for election both last year and this year—for reelection as county executive and now for governor—he has a consulting job with Connecticut-based Townsquare Media, the Daily News reported Friday…. ?
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